Faith stories for tested trust.
The Call with Nancy Sabato brings faith stories into direct conversation with biblical teaching. Episodes move from adoption loss, illness, marriage strain, prophecy, and financial hardship toward questions of trust, prayer, courage, and discernment.
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The Call with Nancy Sabato is built around Christian testimony, biblical explanation, and practical exhortation. Its episodes often begin with a question that sounds personal before widening into a larger faith issue. Did God lead someone wrong when an adoption collapsed? What should a believer do with fear, discouragement, or a first thought that feels destructive? Can prayer help a wounded marriage? How should Christians read frightening headlines about Israel, Iran, and prophecy without being ruled by fear? The show answers these questions through interviews rather than detached teaching. Guests bring stories of loss, illness, counseling, ministry pressure, financial hardship, and spiritual turning points. The conversation usually stays close to Scripture. The Bible is treated as the anchor for hearing God’s voice, measuring truth, and moving from belief into transformation. There is a strong emphasis on small faithful steps. Courage is described as trust in action, not as a personality trait. Pain is not minimized, but it is often framed as something God can redeem. Mental and emotional struggle appears frequently, especially through fear, broken relationships, medical uncertainty, negative thoughts, and seasons when God feels silent. The show also makes room for doctrinal and cultural teaching, from first-century context at the Last Supper to Bible engagement research and end-times interpretation. Its register is earnest and pastoral. It can repeat key ideas because it is trying to reinforce them, not decorate them. Listeners looking for irony, debate, or broad interfaith analysis will not find that here. The show is clearer as a Christian encouragement space for people who already take Scripture seriously or are actively trying to reconnect with it. Its distinct appeal is the way it places personal crisis, Bible study, and direct spiritual challenge in the same conversation.
Made for: For Christian listeners seeking testimony-centered encouragement, biblical teaching, and practical language for fear, loss, marriage strain, prayer, and discernment. It especially suits people who want faith framed as transformation, not just belief.
What sets it apart: The show combines personal testimony with explicit Scripture-based interpretation, moving from painful stories into concrete spiritual takeaways. Its episodes are less about polished inspiration than about how faith holds up when plans collapse, bodies fail, relationships fracture, or the news feels unsettling.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Nancy Sabato connects Christian conviction to measurable change, institutional responsibility, and decisions made under personal or organizational pressure.
Nancy Sabato builds The Call with Nancy Sabato around direct questions about how Christian belief shapes decisions under pressure. Her guest conversations move through failed adoption, depression, damaging thought patterns, biblical prophecy, and engagement with scripture.
Church attendance gets counted; your unopened Bible might be the more awkward metric.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A painful adoption story that becomes a lesson in trust, advocacy, and policy change.
Rachel Grohl's story follows an international adoption she believed God led her to pursue, only to see it collapse at the final court hearing after about five years, tens of thousands of dollars, and multiple trips.
A faith conversation that turns medical crisis and spiraling thoughts into a case for hope.
The episode traces Jesse Bradley through a life that changed fast: professional soccer in Africa, a serious illness, a year fighting for his life, and the slower mental work that followed after health and career were gone.
A Scripture-centered challenge to look beyond visible participation toward Bible engagement and mentoring.
Arnie Cole pushes a familiar ministry scorecard past attendance, raised hands and baptisms, asking whether those visible markers are matched by steady engagement with Scripture.
A Scripture-centered reading of Israel-Iran tensions that watches prophecy without forcing a timetable.
In The Call, Israel-Iran tensions become a test of biblical interpretation as Steve Miller sets current events beside God's promises to Israel and the future war described in Ezekiel 38. The episode is most useful when it avoids turning prophecy into a calendar.
Bradley's story of illness, lost direction, and meeting a first thought with Christian hope.
Negative thoughts arrive fast, and The Call with Nancy Sabato uses Jesse Bradley's story to ask what can happen when that first thought is answered by another one.
A Scripture-led episode that distinguishes sin from suffering while keeping help close at hand.
The episode approaches depression as a condition that needs careful discernment before any response is chosen. Nate's story moves from childhood anxiety to his conversion and a long search of Scripture for help, but the central strength is the way the discussion separates…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Host Nancy Sabato interviews Jesse Bradley about overcoming negative thoughts with biblical hope.
Host Nancy Sabato interviews Nate about his book 'Overcoming the Darkness,' which addresses spiritual depression from a biblical perspective.
Joan Hunter shares her personal story of overcoming divorce and breast cancer through faith, emphasizing God's role in healing and hope.
A mother shares her personal story of dealing with her son's drug addiction, exploring faith, grace, and parental struggles in a Christian context.
Nancy Sabato asks Maryam Durio how Christians can hear God when prayer feels silent, grounding the conversation in Jesus’s words, “My sheep hear my voice.” Durio says Scripture is the first test: thoughts that contradict the Bible are not God’s voice, much like a teller recognizes counterfeit money by knowing real bills.
On The Call, Jeff Lukich describes drifting from Catholic practice after leaving for college in 1984, despite continuing to believe in God.
A routine surgery in 2016 left an unnamed young man in a 33-day coma, framing The Call with Nancy Sabato around his reported encounters with heaven and hell.
On The Call with Nancy Sabato, biblical researcher Dina Dye reads Noah’s Ark as a temple pattern rather than only a boat.
Heidi and Brad describe rebuilding their marriage after Brad's affair, including Heidi's decision to forgive after evaluating whether Brad was repentant.
Did she hear God wrong?
This episode explores overcoming fear to fully trust God through practical steps, using personal experiences and biblical examples like Abraham to encourage faith-driven change and healing from trauma.
The episode begins with the kind of thought that shows up already carrying fear, doubt, or discouragement.
This episode features Brad and Heidi Mitchell discussing how prayer and faith helped heal their marriage after a difficult season in ministry.
This episode explores the cultural context of the Last Supper, focusing on foot washing and seating arrangements to reveal insights about Jesus and the disciples' understanding of his messianic role.
Arnie Cole says Back to the Bible built the SALT Index because churches track attendance, baptisms, and "hands raised" more than Bible engagement.
Rising tensions around Israel and Iran open a conversation about prophecy.
A woman shares her family's story of facing severe financial hardship 30 years ago, unable to afford a Christmas tree or presents, and how this set the stage for a miraculous intervention from God.
This episode explores why Jesus is the ultimate leader worth following, focusing on his clear mission and lack of distractions as key leadership qualities.
Nate discusses his personal journey with spiritual depression and anxiety, exploring how studying Scripture and faith in God helped him find healing and hope.